ABDM (Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission) is rich in acronyms. Hospitals trying to integrate often try to do everything at once and finish nothing.
Phase 1: ABHA linking at the front desk
Start at registration. Capture or create an ABHA number for every patient. Nothing else changes operationally on day one, but you build the consent surface you'll need later.
Phase 2: HFR and HPR registration
Register the facility (HFR) and every practitioner (HPR). This is mostly paperwork but enables everything downstream — referrals, e-prescriptions, claims.
Phase 3: Health record sharing
Now you can push lab reports, discharge summaries, and prescriptions to the patient's longitudinal record.
A common pitfall
Integrating with claims before the rest of the foundation is in place. The data quality requirements bite quickly.
Treat ABDM as a multi-quarter program, not a Q1 project.
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